Everyday thoughts of the girl next door.

Oh, how they get you!

I hate going to a parlor or a salon. If you are getting a haircut, they try to get you to color your hair, or perm it, or buy one of their ridiculously expensive care products. So I decided I shall grow my hair out and see how long I can go without a cut. I have long stopped getting facials at a parlor and do them at home instead. Waxing is something I shall never ever get used to, so going to a parlor for that was out too. Eyebrows however are another story. Since I was going for my BIL’s wedding, I had gotten my eyebrows done, and at that visit I acted like I was in so much of a hurry that the girl at the parlor did not have time to ask me if I wanted anything else. Today when I went back to get my eyebrows done again, I forgot about my in a hurry trick. This is what happened:

Eyebrow Girl(EG): Ma’am have you been here before?

Me: yeah I came about a month back to get my eyebrows done.

EG: Do you want to get your upper lip threaded as well?

Me: No, only the eyebrows please.

EG: Oh, OK (gives my upper lip a hard, long look)

After some time, when she is almost done with eyebrows

EG: Do you want to get a facial cleanup done? You seem to have a lot of black heads…….

3 Responses

I am so with you on this one Shilpa. I hate these women at the salons. In their bid to market and sell their products and services, they pick at every possible body part of yours and end up making you feel awful by the time you get out of there.

Unfortunately, they have successfully lowered my self esteem on quite a few occasions. I am quite vain to begin with, and when people judge my skin, hair, etc in nasty tones, just to sell me something, it really annoys me.

I always use the ‘in a hurry’ excuse too. But in future, I am not going to look for excuses. Why should I? It’s not like I am at fault! I’ll blatantly ask them to shut up!